If you are doing company research, in many of our databases you can search by ticker symbol. To find a company's ticker symbol, you can google it or look it up in a database like Morningstar or Value Line Investment Survey.
Likewise, if you are doing industry research, in many of our databases you can search by industry codes such as a NAICS code.
Finally, just like searching for books, you should utilize keywords and boolean operators to search in databases.